I read some of Ted Cruz's speech and he's a bigger asshole than I thought he was. We can't keep treating these election fraud claims like they're reasonable. That is just going to further inflame the crazies.
What concerns me is not so much the morons in the street but the many apparent cracks in our system that have been shown to exist and that a demagogue could try and take advantage of.
There are four things we saw in 2020 that shouldn't be possible.
1. Election clerks shouldn't be able to not accept certified election results as we almost saw in Michigan.
2. Legislatures should not be able to override election results as Trump tried to get them to do.
3. One state should not be able to challenge the election results in another state as we saw with the Texas lawsuit.
4. Congress should not be able to reject election results certified by a state as currently allowed by 3 US Code Chapter 1 § 15.
We need to take some action, either by new federal law, by changing current federal law or even constitutional amendment, to insure these things can't happen in the future. We were lucky this time and we need to do some caulking.
Well, actually, I HOPE we'll be lucky this time.
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